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ALEXIS MADRIGAL
Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
Out March 29 (Da Capo).
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Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
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"But listen: What is going on with that high hat? It almost sounds like… LCD Soundsystem? Then, under it (but rising), there are these Bee Gees strings and doo wop vocal harmonies asking, “Who loves you, pretty baby? Who loves you, pretty mama?” Huh. Just as I’m really starting to listen in, completely ignoring the restaurant’s “bold flavored Mediterranean cuisine,” the song completely changes. Straight disco! Except it’s got a Vegas sideshow’s sense of the epic and Three’s Company’s drive for repetitive and erratic schmaltz. This keeps on for two minutes until the bridge, which thumps into a lean Italian disco/Giorgio Moroder bass riff that gets surrounded by a bunch of ghostly doo-doo-doos before bursting through them and back into the song’s main motif via a tense piano interlude: Baby. Baby. Doo, doo, doo, doo. Come to meeeee! Baby, you’ll see! Who loves you pretty baby? Whose gonna help you through the night?"
Track of the Day: ‘Who Loves You’ - Alexis Madrigal - Culture - The Atlantic
